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Dan Phiffer
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Web developer at @propublica.org. Sometimes (rarely) mixed up with the Dan Pfeiffer who has a podcast. Lives in Troy, NY. He/him.

More active on Mastodon: https://social.coop/@dphiffer
Feeling good today.
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Rosie is obsessed with stuff on the ground.
June 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
“This one might be my best one yet.” —me, every time I roast a marshmallow.
May 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The tour was very good—the upshot is basically that Harriett Tubman was a total bad-ass and direct action gets the goods. Very impressed with 19th c. Abolitionists.

Tomorrow will mark 165 years since Charles Nalle was rescued in Troy, NY.
April 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Bonus tip: if you’re leaking an image with faces in it, Signal’s camera has a convenient feature to blur them.
April 3, 2025 at 1:33 PM
A photo diptych by my 15 month old, Rosie.
March 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“That’s a promise.”
github.com/mozilla/bedr...
February 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The Gulf of [Bee Movie script]
February 12, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I love this live interpretation audio feature that May First added to their Jitsi video conferencing. e.g., if you have English and Spanish speakers and a live translator, a slider lets each person change who they hear, depending on what language they understand. It works well!
gitlab.com/mfmt/jsi/
February 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Dang they caught my cyber attack!

But seriously, having overzealous automated moderation is just a reality of running a giant social media operation. But this is also exactly *why* I’m leaving.
January 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
New profile pic.
January 13, 2025 at 3:05 AM
There's also a PDF cheat sheet you can print out and distribute locally, if you are so inclined.
themarkup.org/prepmyphone
May 4, 2024 at 6:33 PM
I was glad to see @rusty.todayintabs.com make the zombo.com joke, it was all I could think of when I read this.
July 25, 2023 at 2:11 AM